tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post4398973390292634697..comments2024-03-22T17:05:55.267-04:00Comments on MD Whistleblower: Are Organic Foods Healthier?Michael Kirsch, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07555280388086931097noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-16302987780653275912012-12-04T09:38:44.823-05:002012-12-04T09:38:44.823-05:00Perhaps more important than organic is mineral and...Perhaps more important than organic is mineral and omega-3 content of plant and animal foods. Michael Pollan says, "You are what what you eat eats." And in the Introduction to "Food for Nought: the decline in nutrition" Ross Hume Hall, PhD said this:<br /><br />"Nourishment of the American populace has undergone a startling transformation since World War II. A highly individual system of growing and marketing food has been transformed into a gigantic, highly integrated service system in which the object is not to nourish or even to feed, but to force an ever-increasing consumption of fabricated products. This phenomenon is not peculiar to the American scene and occurs in every industrialized country. The United States, however, has progressed furthest in the transformation. Man can never be more than what he eats, and one would expect that a phenomenon with such profound effects on health and wellbeing as a radically changed system of supplying nourishment would be thoroughly documented and assessed by the scientific community. Such is not the case. The transformation has gone unmarked by government agencies and learned bodies. Government agencies, recipients of the public trust, charged with protecting and improving the public's food, operate as if the technology of food fabrication rested in pre-World War II days. Scientific bodies, supported by public funds and charged with assessing and improving the public's health, ignore completely the results of contemporary methods of marketing food...Failure to monitor and to appreciate the results of rapidly moving technology produces a brutal effect that forms the central theme of this book. Technology founded on mechanistic laws clashes head on with the processes of a natural world which adheres to very different laws. Modern industry, ignoring these biologic laws, molds and manipulates natural processes to suit and to promote its own mechanistic and economic goals."<br /><br />Note the observation that "Man can never be more than what he eats..." Today's industrialized food supply offers an abundance of food artefacts dilute in micronutrients and heavily laced with omega-6 industrial seed oils. In comparison, the organic advantage may be too small to measure in the context of foods that rather quickly induce disease. I conclude with this quote from the The Modern Nutritional Diseases by Fred and Alice Ottoboni:<br /><br />"The current relentless pressure to convert the entire population to a low-fat, high carbohydrate dietary regime seems to be driven by a curious set of circumstances. It began with an idea aimed at inducing the public to buy and eat foods that are profitable to the agricultural and food industries as opposed to foods that man was designed to eat. With judicious use of public relations, advertising, pseudo science, and political prowess, this idea has grown into a sophisticated and powerful movement that is changing eating habits throughout the world. Concurrently, the national priority aimed at the treatment of the modern nutritional diseases, rather than their prevention, has focused medical research on patentable new drugs rather than on preventive methods...The consequences are sobering. Older adults suffer premature disabilities and shortened life spans; younger adults, and even children, are increasingly affected by early signs of atherosclerosis, obesity, and type-2 diabetes. Enormous prescription drug and medical care costs have nearly reached the point of overwhelming the national budget. And tragically, a growing body of evidence suggests that the bizarre and increasingly common behavioral problems among young children and teen-agers are related to the combined effects of high sugar intakes and the virtual absence of omega-3 essential fatty acids in the American diet."<br /><br />Junk food is junk food. IN the end, it matters little whether the ingredients are organic or non.David Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16372232359108968083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-46465677598121312992012-11-23T15:50:27.375-05:002012-11-23T15:50:27.375-05:00Fair point. I agree that food additives should be...Fair point. I agree that food additives should be determined to be safe. I still maintain that organic foods, which has an elastic definition, shouldn't be assumed to be more healthful.Michael Kirsch, M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07555280388086931097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-31973723417670958022012-11-23T01:49:31.431-05:002012-11-23T01:49:31.431-05:00While you might argue that no one has proven organ...While you might argue that no one has proven organic is better, why add potential hazards to our food supply? Prove the additives benign, don' t assume.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-40051364192307711522012-09-27T09:12:44.529-04:002012-09-27T09:12:44.529-04:00With regard to the above comment, there is no conc...With regard to the above comment, there is no conclusive evidence that pesticides increase human mortality. Appreciate your comment.Michael Kirsch, M.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07555280388086931097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-36914641889237999102012-09-26T23:45:16.547-04:002012-09-26T23:45:16.547-04:00The use of pesticide in raw materials is really em...The use of pesticide in raw materials is really embarrassing. It affects the human digestive system and it can extends up to decreasing life span of the human being.Heaalthcare Information Systemhttp://www.birlamedisoft.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323692122514281455.post-6707654031509235372012-09-25T10:36:43.492-04:002012-09-25T10:36:43.492-04:00The manner in which organic foods are farmed is le...The manner in which organic foods are farmed is less invasive to the environment as well as the farm workers. In my opinion, for that reason alone, one must consider them!George Reskakis DDSnoreply@blogger.com